@elpocito
Thanks everyone for the patient advice, all working well again.

thanks for a very clear reply. I tried it in the Test mode and it did work faster, so will reinstall. Thanks again.

thanks for a very clear reply. I tried it in the Test mode and it did work faster, so will reinstall. Thanks again.

I've tried everything to speed up Opera (68.0.3618.125) to no avail, it now takes about 15 minutes to reach full speed, FACEBOOK being a real problem, often I need to reload FB pages up to five times to get them displayed at full rendition (pixels are missing).
There is a solution, but I've forgotten how to do it. On a similar laptop (Windows 7/ 34 bit) it wouldn't connect to the internet. The error message that came up led me to changing settings in Windows that not only solved the problem but speeded it up so fast Start up now only takes a couple of seconds and the browser whizzes.
Anyone help?
Please be descriptive I am no computer buff.

@elpocito
Thanks everyone for the patient advice, all working well again.

@blackbird71
Will do, may take a day or two, not a keen user of technology, prefer gardening, but will get back, you all have been very patient, I'm grateful, why chuck out decent kit when it still does the job.

@blackbird71
Okay, with history deleted and just the settings tab, this is what Opera Task Manager is showing:
BROWSER 38,172KB
GPU PROCESS 17,740KB
UTILITY: NETWORK SERVICE 14,080KB
UTILITY: AUDIO SERVICE 5,844KB
TAB: SPEED DIAL 23,620KB
TAB: SETTINGS 46,228KB
EXTENSIONS: VIDEO HANDLER 16,984KB
EXTENSIONS: BACKGROUND WORKER 21,456KB

@blackbird71
...I think so, I usually do it as a matter of course whenever I finish, but not totally sure this time. Right now the notebook is updating, I will try again tomorrow and get back to you.

@blackbird71
Okay. Done everything. Usage is now 244Mb with just the Opera settings tab open. Is that within acceptable limits?

@elpocito
Oops, meant to say there is no folder called "AppData". Could it be hidden? I tried to create one with that name and it said it was already in use, way back to 2011.

@nvmjustagirl
Have no idea what a "page file" is, certainly have changed anything.

@burnout426
Thanks, it was on, turned it off.